Don D. McAulay
Assistant Professor of Management
Donald D. McAulay, Jr., Ph.D., a native of New Haven and a proud graduate of James Hillhouse High School. Don received his doctoral degree in Learning, Leadership, and Educational Policy at the University of Connecticut NEAG School of Education and a Master's in Sport Management from Troy University. His Bachelor's degree is from the College of William & Mary.
His professional and scholarly interests focus on holistic athletic development across the athletic continuum, athletic identity, athletic transition/transference, institutional policy, and Black male sociopolitical and socioemotional identity development.
Don is currently a Youth Commissioner for the City of New Haven and a Board Committee member for the Social Justice Readers program at the Institute Library.
His professional and scholarly interests focus on holistic athletic development across the athletic continuum, athletic identity, athletic transition/transference, institutional policy, and Black male sociopolitical and socioemotional identity development.
Don is currently a Youth Commissioner for the City of New Haven and a Board Committee member for the Social Justice Readers program at the Institute Library.
Education
- BA, The College of William and Mary
- MS, Troy University
- PHD, University of Connecticut
Areas of Expertise
- Conflict Management
- Organizational Leadership
- Organizational Behavior
- Management Education and Development
- Gender & Diversity
Organization
- Management
Office Location
- The School of Business SB 320
Mail Drop
- SB-DNF
Quinnipiac Today
Selected Publications
Media Request - "Bad Bunny Halftime Performance / Political Tension & Immigration" - CT NBC
McAulay, D.
(2025)
Media Request - "Connecticut Sun Relocation & Commissioner Tension" - CT NBC
McAulay, D.
(2025)
Media Request - "Geofencing" (Yankee-- Boston Red Sox Wild Card Game) - WIC Radio
McAulay, D.
(2025)
Media Request - "March Madness Frenzy" - Fleishman Hillard
McAulay, D.
(2025)
Media Request - "Comments on the Super Bowl as a Mega Event" - Fleishman Hillard
McAulay, D.
(2025)
Global Blackness in the Sports Politics, Policy and Law section of Frontiers in Sports and Active Living journal.
Williams, L., Brown, L., Foster, S., McAulay, D., Fennell, M.,
(2025)
Peer Reviewed Presentations
The NCAA Bracket Mindset: A Cognitive Tool for Athletic and Career Development for inclusion
McAulay, Jr., D. D.
College Research Sports Institute, University of South Carolina; Columbia, SC. (2025)
Peer Reviewed Presentations
Rethinking Athletic Identity: Ableism, Injury, and Psychological Transition
McAulay, Jr., D. D.
College Research Sports Institute., University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC., United States (2025)
Peer Reviewed Presentations
Captain's Corner: Are you an Asset or Liability?
McAulay, Jr., D.
AthLife Foundation National Conference, University of Maryland, College Park, MD. (2025)
Peer Reviewed Presentations
Beyond Eligibility: Athletic Academic Advising that Actually Work
McAulay, Jr., D. D.,
Athlife Foundation: CT Student Athlete Conference (2025)
Peer Reviewed Presentations
Understanding the Cultural Responsibility of Talent Management
McAulay, D.
The Black Sport Agents Conference, Lake Tahoe, CA (2025)
Peer Reviewed Presentations
The Competitive Nature of Blackness and the Moral Responsibility
McAulay, D.,
The Black Sport Agents Conference, Lake Tahoe, CA (2025)
Management Planning for New Business Owners
McAulay, D.,
(2025)
Peer Reviewed Presentations
NIL Bootcamp for High School
McAulay, D.
USASBE NIL Certification & Conference, University of Nevada - Las Vegas (UNLV), Las Vegas, NV (2025)
Faculty Workshop
Decoupling our Political Reality
McAulay, D.
Critical Conversation Series (Office of Inclusive Excellence), Qunnipiac University, Hamden, CT. (2025)
Faculty Workshop
Home ...and still Home
McAulay, D.,
QU Cultural Connection (Office of Human Resources), Quinnipiac University, Hamden, CT. (2025)
Imposter Syndrome and Identity Development
McAulay, D.,
(2025)
"I Belong and I am Aware"
McAulay, D.
(2025)
Panelist - Mental Health in context of Sports
McAulay, D.,
(2025)
Peer Reviewed Presentations
Transition Out to be Back in the Game - Panelist
McAulay, D.,
Black Student Athlete Conference, Chicago, Illinois (Business District) (2025)
Journal of Management Education (JME
McAulay, D.
(2025)
Peer Reviewed Presentations
"Intellectual Homeboys & Brotha Docs: Navigating Academia as a Black Male"
Williams, L., McAulay, Jr., D. D., & Fennell, M.,
North American Society for the Sociology of Sport, Chicago, IL (2024)
Peer Reviewed Presentations
Male at Camp
McAulay, Jr., D. D.
College Research Sports Institute, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC. (2024)
Peer Reviewed Presentations
HBHS / HBCU: Education, Sports, & Segregation
McAulay, Jr., D. D.
College Research Sports Institute., University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC., United States (2024)
Peer Reviewed Presentations
“We’re obviously educated on the field, but we’re educated on this thing called life”: Exploring the master narrative of Black male scholar-athletes navigational experiences in the socio-cultural environment of a historically White college and university
Herman III, J., McAulay, Jr., D., & Bopp, T.
North American Society for Sport Management, Minneapolis, MN., United States (2024)
Peer Reviewed Presentations
Student-Athletes Understanding Emotions & Identity Politics
McAulay, Jr., D. D.,
AthLife Foundation: 3ACE National Conference, University of Maryland, College Park (2024)
Peer Reviewed Journal
Anti-Black misandry as an emotional reflection with Black American male college athletes: An interpretative phenomenological study.
McAulay Jr., D. D.
Sociology of Sport Journal 1-12 (2024)
Peer Reviewed Journal
The Black college athletes’ burden: A critical analysis of race, civic engagement, and activism of National Collegiate Athletic Association athletes.
Cooper, J. N., McAulay, Jr., D. D., & Herman, J.
Sociology of Sport Journal 1 - 14 (2024)
Peer Reviewed Presentations
Angel vs Caitlin: An Interactionist Synthesis of Smack Talk
Fennell, Marcis, Ph.D., McAulay, Don, Ph.D
2023 North American Society of Sociology of Sport , New Orleans, LA (2023)